NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1198

HOUSE BILL 1161

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 31A OF THE GENERAL STATUTES RELATING TO JURISDICTION OF COUNTY COURTS IN DIVORCE AND CUSTODY ACTIONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 7-296, as the same appears in the 1963 Cumulative Supplement to Recompiled Volume 1B of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"notwithstanding the foregoing, the General County Court shall retain jurisdiction to hear and determine all motions with respect to divorce, divorce a mensa et thoro, alimony without divorce, child custody and support in all cases wherein the said General County Court had rendered the initial Order or Judgment."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed, provided that nothing contained herein shall affect the provisions of Chapter 310 of the 1965 Session Laws.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1965.